Obama on the Couch
by Justin Frank
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45%
Critic Reviews: 18
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Reader Ratings: 24
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Synopsis
What happened to the Barack Obama that America voted for? Now available in paperback with exclusive new material, bestselling author and psycho-analyst Dr. Justin Frank provides fresh and exciting insights into President Obamaâs psyche, offering a perspective on his transformation in office that will continue to inspire debate leading right up to the 2012 election. Even though he's three years into his term as President, many Americans feel like they... more
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Published: May 1, 2012 by Simon & Schuster
Genre: Political & Social Sciences. Non-fiction. 288 pages
- All Critics: 18
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- Negative: 9
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San Francisco Chronicle | 23 Oct 2011
Obama on the Couch is, to put it mildly, highly speculative. Insufficiently attentive to the evolving political realities Obama confronts, including the rise of the Tea Party and Republican control of the House of Representatives, Frank does not really help us understand his smart, complex and often frustratingly elusive subject.
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OpEdNews | 19 Oct 2011
Dr. Frank does make an observation that is relevant to considering the questions above when he describes one of Obama's big-sounding speeches.
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Old Hickory's Weblog | 5 Mar 2012
An insightful biography of President Obama. It's written for a general audience, though will be hard going for readers without some familiarity with psychoanalytic terms.
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 Sep 2011
Psycho-babble mixed with occasional insight.
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Psych Central | 1 Jan 2012
Rather than a serious psychoanalysis of the president, what we get here is a dense examination of the president’s life, through painstaking review of a huge number of sources.
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Huffington Post | 17 Oct 2011
Frank ... spent nearly two years studying Obama's memoirs, speeches and general public demeanor as part of his effort to give insight into who the president really is, something he said many people want to know.
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The Blue Voice | 4 Mar 2012
So even a study like this one with inherently flawed sources material can still provide useful information and insights. And Frank achieves that.
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Deseret News | 17 Oct 2011
One thing is clear: President Obama makes a fascinating subject.
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Rolling Stone | 11 Nov 2011
A practicing psychoanalyst ... Frank applies the insights and techniques of his trade in an effort to unravel the mysteries and inconsistencies of Barack Obama's character.
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Publishers Weekly | 26 Sep 2011
While the text becomes repetitive, it may satisfy readers curious about the psychology of their leadership.
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News Review. | 1 Dec 2011
I’m not one who puts much stock in psychoanalytic theories of human behavior, but there are compelling insights into the 44th president of the United States in this book.
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Illinois Review | 1 Dec 2011
If you're lucky, maybe you've never heard of one Justin Frank, M.D. who pretends to commit psychoanalysis at The George Washington University.
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The Peter Collins Show | 4 Nov 2011
To those who dream that Obama would be much different in his second term, Frank offers a–well–very frank opinion. Your humble host strongly recommends this book.
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Booklist Online | 15 Oct 2011
This is a completely intriguing look at a complicated man, one that will linger as readers observe the president, whether or not they fully buy its psychoanalysis.
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Mail Online | 16 Oct 2011
Frank's analysis of Obama also stretches to analyse his biracial herritage.
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Dissident Voice | 5 May 2012
Highly informative and often convincing, the book to my mind is still entirely too sympathetic to Obama
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The Boston Globe | 6 Nov 2011
Still, outsized claims are the hallmark of this genre, and Frank’s book is no exception. His argument that Obama’s biracial identity brands him with “a fundamental division that he has been trying to heal for his entire life’’ feels like overreaching.
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Buffalo Beast | 1 Nov 2011
The good Doctor has taken a crack at analyzing a human being whose personality isn’t a caricature, in Our Glorious Commander in Hope Barack Obama, and wow does he do a remarkably bad job.
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